“It’s far too early to start flexing muscles,” Mr. Espaillat said. In June, Mr. Espaillat won against a crowded field seeking to replace longtime Representative Charles B. Rangel, beating, by about three percentage points, the candidate endorsed by Mr. Rangel. Luis Tejada, a local activist who also ran in the last Senate primary, rounds out the field. Mr. Murtaugh is now helping organize support for Mr. Jackson and for Mr. Linares, the incumbent for the very seat that Mr. Murtaugh and Mr. Espaillat once held. “It will be a blow to his prestige if his two candidates do not win,” Mr. Murtaugh said of Mr. Espaillat.

Source: New York Times September 05, 2016 01:30 UTC